Ethics in Health Services Management: Fifth Edition

by Kurt Darr

Book Overview

The most comprehensive book on health services ethics, this text is indispensable for education in health services organization and management, strategic planning, finance, marketing, and nursing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932529683
• ISBN13: 9781932529685
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Health Professions Press
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A textbook-quality resource for confronting moral and ethical medical quandaries

Written by a Professor of Hospital Administration, the newly updated and expanded fourth edition of Ethics in Health Services Management is an in-depth educational manual for students and professionals alike, drawing upon eighty case studies and vignettes from a full range of care settings to illustrate its precepts for solving a wide variety of ethical dilemmas. Chapters cover organizational responses to ethical problems, conflicts of interest and fiduciary duty, patient autonomy and the paradigm of physician-assisted suicide, and much more. Extensive documentation, an index, and a bibliography round out this superb, textbook-quality resource for confronting moral and ethical medical quandaries.